Critical Content and Skills

Content Area: Social Studies

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	Product Summative Assessment
1. Christopher Columbus, Treaty of Ryswick, What Columbus and the Spanish did to the people of Haiti.	Quiz	1. Describe the impact that Christopher Columbus had on the indigenous people of Hispaniola (Haiti).	Comic Life- Students will create a comic that depicts Columbus's actions in Haiti.
2. Napoleon Bonaparte, Dutty Boukman, Battle of Vertieres, Taino Amerindians (native Haitians), Toussaint L'Ouverture	Quiz	2. Make sense of how the Haitian people managed to overthrow the French and win independence.	Blog- Students will create a series of blog entries from the perspective of a Haitian slave -- this should include what is going through his or her head during the revolution.
3. "Food Dumping", sources of foreign aid, Haiti is the third hungriest country in the world, they are the poorest nation in the western world, Haiti is 149 out of 182 on the UN's HDI index, Students will understand what HDI is and how it is calculated.	Journal Entry	3. Decide if Haiti has the ability to overcome its enormous poverty problems and increase the standard of living of its people.	Podcast- Students will create a public service announcement talking about the ways in which Haiti can change course and solve its poverty problems.
4.They will understand the loss of soil in Haiti,deforestation and its consequences, They will know that people see wood just to make a little money.	Worksheet	4. Analyze the impact deforestation has had on the country of Haiti.	iMovie- Students will create an iMovie that shows the impacts that deforestation has had on Haitian life and culture.
5. Where Haiti stands when it comes to freedom. They will know how the group Freedom House determines a country's freedom level. Haiti is a republic, its capital city is Port-au-Prince, they have universal suffrage, they are lead by President Rene Preval.	Observation	5. Assume the role of a political candidate in Haiti, and talk about the changes he or she would make to improve the country.	Blog- Students will create a series of blogs from the perspective of a political candidate in Haiti. Students will talk about what things they would change in order to improve the life of the average Haitian and to pull the country out of despair.
6. Debt cancellation, new technologies, conservation, economic diversity.	Self Assessment	6. Recognize that, even though Haiti is a third world nation with tremendous poverty problems, it can still succeed in a 21st Century world.	Glogster- Students will create a poster that shows new types of technologies and conservation techniques that could be used to help alleviate the environmental and poverty problems in Haiti

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster
IN- Inspiration